{"id":60525,"date":"2010-04-18T21:47:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T04:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=60525"},"modified":"2010-04-18T21:56:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T04:56:58","slug":"monks-bolster-china%e2%80%99s-quake-relief-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/04\/monks-bolster-china%e2%80%99s-quake-relief-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Monks Bolster China\u2019s Quake Relief Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/19\/world\/19quake.html\"><strong>The New York Times looks<\/strong> <\/a>at relief efforts in <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/qinghai-earthquake-2010\">Jiegu<\/a> by both the government and by Buddhist monks who are traveling from around the country to offer assistance to victims:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Chinese government has undertaken an aggressive relief effort. In recent days the city has been flooded with soldiers, medics and supplies. The response has been so great, and traffic downtown so bad, that the government has urged volunteers to stay away.<\/p>\n<p>President Hu Jintao, who cut short a state visit to South America after the quake struck, flew to Jiegu on Sunday, consoling victims and promising to rebuild. \u201cThere will be new schools!\u201d he wrote on a blackboard in a tent filled with orphaned children, according to Xinhua, the official news agency. \u201cThere will be new homes!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps just as striking as Beijing\u2019s rescue-and-relief juggernaut is the highly visible operation mounted by Buddhist monks, thousands of whom have traveled long distances from Tibetan areas of the country. They distribute packaged biscuits, tend huge vats of barley and dig for bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Like their makeshift prayer tent in central Jiegu, much of that help has been uncoordinated, and for the moment, tolerated by a government suspicious of Tibetan organizations and especially organized religion. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gdspdDB0WaMv_An4A-NvHB_DwmCwD9F5Q4P80\">Flood of aid reaches China&#8217;s remote quake zone<\/a>&#8221; from AP.<\/p>\n<p>View moving images of the quake&#8217;s aftermath, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/04\/earthquake_in_yushu_china.html\">Boston Globe<\/a>, and from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/malcolmm\/sets\/72157623885753398\/\">Malcolm Moore of the Daily Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times looks at relief efforts in Jiegu by both the government and by Buddhist monks who are traveling from around the country to offer assistance to victims: The Chinese government has undertaken an aggressive relief effort. 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